First Windows Phone 7 ROM leaked. Now what?

Evidently, the first leaked ROM from a true and true Windows Phone 7 device has made its appearance.

We say evidently, but perhaps it should be supposedly since as of now, we don't have any proof of anything besides a file. This does come from a Chinese site and spoofs (cough, HD2 running WP7, cough) are a plenty these days. So grain of salt, lets not all believe it quite yet, yadda yadda.

Information is sparse at the moment as the XDA folks sort through the information and decide what the next step will be.

So no shocker there that HTC will probably be the first to market with a WP7 device. AT&T may be a surprise for some, seeing as they have not been exactly embracing of anything Windows Mobile as of late.

Download-mirrors for the ROM can be found here, though we're betting they won't be of much use to many. And no, porting this to your Touch Pro 2 or HD2 probably won't be an immediate possibility, so don't get your hopes up just yet.

After further examining the file, there is indeed an IMGFS inside, the D000FF format appears to be a new "store" type of .bin, will need to figure out the format for it to pull out imgfs (because just cutting in a hex editor gives you some invalid data)

Also, IMGFS is compressed with XPH (rather than XPR or LZX as we're used to)

That's true, but I remember Da_G also believing that Tom actualy had/has WP7 running on his HD2. It's been nearly two months and nothing emerged yet. I find it strange that this "Cingular USA" ROM leaks from China too..

Uh oh, now Da_G is going to get his house searched, his computers seized, his life turned... oh wait, what? Oh yah, only higher ups from Apple Douche-bags do that stuff to enthusiasts. Da_G and his family will be fine. Microsoft and Bill Gates aren't assholes.

However it never changed from there. All Internal Test ROMS made for ATT are referrred to has Cingular.

This is nothing new. The structure was already there for Cingular, with provisions and everything else. Nothing Else was changed but the name. So instead of change how it was set up on the HTC System. They left it like that.

This is only used for internal testing, and these ROMS are not suppose to be leaked anyways.

This ROM did come from a Chinese Source, but if you look at the same posters previous post, on XDA and different sites. You will see that person has always provided Real Actual ROMS in the past.

The other thing to look at is, this new format, D000FF that has never been seen in the past. There has also never been a WP7 ROM in past.

It is also using XPH Compression. But this is also a known compression type of WP7. It has been seen in previous WP7 ROMS that were never leaked in the public. Tools have been made that will use the new format. That is not the issue at this time.

Because they've been cold to Windows Mobile in the past and even Android of late? Just saying they're pretty happy with the iPhone/iPad deal and don't seem too keen on upsetting that relationship with an "iphone killer" (not that this necessarily is one).